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Bannon Plotting Fox News Competitor As Curious Details Of Roger Ailes’ Involvement Emerge
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 08/19/17 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 08/20/2017 6:33:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Former Chief White House Strategist and current executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, is wasting no time in expanding the leading populist news network. Bannon is reportedly plotting a television channel to rival Fox News. Strikingly, the idea was first proposed by former Fox News CEO, the late Roger Ailes.

Axios reports:

 

Axios’ Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he’s going to start a network.

Axios has more:

Before Roger Ailes’ death on May 18, he expressed a final wish to some of his few remaining confidants: to get back in the game, with a conservative network that would position itself to the right of Fox News, as his baby became more moderate under the next generation of Murdoch leadership.

In his final days, Ailes sent a message to Steve Bannon in the White House that he’d love to team up on a new conservative media powerhouse.

 

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; competitor; dsj02; foxnews; newmedia; plotting
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To: dynoman

The Country that elected Donald Trump President is outside the bubble... and there’s lots of us...

http://bigleaguepolitics.com/impending-entertainment-news-realignment/

from link:

“The Murdoch boys can play it safe and hold fast to the conservative audience that built Fox News, but this would require them to suppress their Inner Liberal (as well as that of their wives). “

“If one lives inside the LA/NY/DC bubble, and thinks Donald Trump and his supporters are toxic, it might appear on the surface that shifting leftward would be a good business move. Again, though, that requires that one live in the bubble.”


41 posted on 08/20/2017 7:54:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Start by tearing down statues ...burning books, and eventually you go after people - John Davidson)
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To: Rome2000

Who’s “right wing” in banking and business?

They are all PC and support left-leaning causes.

They especially want open borders and transnational government to facilitate cheap labor crossing borders, easy access to markets in various parts of the world and so on.

Hobby Lobby leadership supported RINO Marco Rubio for POTUS and Marco won the country in Arkansas (Benton) where Wal-Mart’s headquarters are located.

Some businesses front for the GOPe a lot like Sinclair Television, based in Baltimore, which owns lots of TV stations across the country.

That causes the Left to call them “Right Wing”.


42 posted on 08/20/2017 7:57:33 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Nextrush

We pay almost $100 per month for Dish.


43 posted on 08/20/2017 7:59:03 AM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me covfefe in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: Enlightened1

A Conservative network to rival the MSM.

This is where Glenn Beck started to go, before he went Bats*it Crazy.

He does have an entire infrastructure in place, including a studio in freedom-loving Texas.

Maybe an opportunity to begin again . . .?


44 posted on 08/20/2017 8:02:35 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Enlightened1
Bannon Plotting Fox News Competitor As Curious Details Of Roger Ailes’ Involvement Emerge

Good!! Shouldn't be too hard to do since Faux news? has slowly sunk down into the cesspool since the departure of Roger Ailes. The Murduch children have gradually taken a once successful business enterprise and strangled it to death in the name of political correctness. MORONS !

45 posted on 08/20/2017 8:07:26 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Eddie01
I flew out of LaGuardia Friday (what a shthole). CNN was on every screen in the close quartered terminal C. They put a screen next to each departure gate to maximum the propaganda.

AT&T is putting CNN up for sale. He should buy it, fire everyone of the anchors,and rename it Conservative News Network - thus maintaining the CNN name and logo.

46 posted on 08/20/2017 8:11:32 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. — Mark Twain)
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To: Enlightened1

The only difference between a “real network” and online streaming is access to the major cable and satellite delivery systems. That’s why OANN is stifled, but if Bannon can gain access, it would be a major win.


47 posted on 08/20/2017 8:31:44 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: cva66snipe

I remember America’s Voice and Paul Weyrich! I watched it religiously on C-Band. Within in a yr of my watching the show, Fox started on Cable. It was a long time ago, but it seemed that soon after, Paul was very sick and died.


48 posted on 08/20/2017 8:38:49 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: Enlightened1

I would love to see FR involved with a conservative TV news channel, in so capacity. I don’t have doubts some big players read this sight for the latest opinions.


49 posted on 08/20/2017 8:55:16 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Nextrush

Dish needs an alternative. Lots of unwatched or unwanted channels to get the 5 you want, all at a high price


50 posted on 08/20/2017 9:07:17 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: eyeamok

“Needs a little work.....?” What? You think he should look and sound like everyone else? My only criticism would be that he could lose Chuck Krautendinger and nobody would weep too much. His hour seems to pass much FASTER than Hannity’s. Sean is too repetetive and has too much minutia. IMHO.


51 posted on 08/20/2017 9:20:15 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: Enlightened1
If true, what an awesome pitch to a YUGE potential audience!

Conservatives will tune in, of course. They have been continuously rubbed raw thanks to the treatment of President Trump by his (our) domestic enemies.

More than anyone else, conservatives are hungry for truth in journalism and they will tune in to see if Bannon will fill the void created when Fox was assimilated.

They alone would supply a rating winning audience, but wait...there's more!

The progressive GOPe and demonrat uniparty is so obsessed with Bannon and Trump that they won't be able to ignore anything Bannon does.

In spite of themselves, the uniparty can't and won't make themselves stay away from whatever Bannon does next.

Wahoo, what fun this could be!

52 posted on 08/20/2017 9:26:39 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Rome2000
Streaming is a non starter

What are you babbling about? Everyone is getting streaming channels through Roku, Amazon Fire, or Google Chromecast. They are not buying cable or satellite bundles anymore.

Breitbart can simply live-stream the news for about $5-$10 bucks a month. Plus, they can offer original content (like specials showcasing the failures of liberal policies) on that same channel.

You do not need a channel in the traditional television sense.

53 posted on 08/20/2017 9:30:02 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Truth29
How to force the cable companies to include them in their packages.

You don't have to force them to do anything. Screw 'em.

OANN is available on Roku or any other streaming device. Breitbart can easily do the same. In fact, they should have done this years ago.

54 posted on 08/20/2017 9:33:21 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: dhs12345
OANN needs some work, IMO.

Yeah, I watch it on DirectTV and it's pretty good, but they could kick it up a notch.

55 posted on 08/20/2017 9:35:05 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: PIF
If the purported channel is not national and not picked up by the cable/satellite carriers then it is dead in the water

LOL! How do you think Netflix is on in almost every household? It sure as hell isn't part of a cable or satellite bundle, unless it was already part of a Smart TV.

You do not need cable or satellite.

56 posted on 08/20/2017 9:36:05 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You do not need cable or satellite.

I do. Speak for yourself, please.

Netflix is not a news source. Different animals.


57 posted on 08/20/2017 9:41:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Enlightened1

Brilliant timing; if truly conservative it will leave FOX in the dust!


58 posted on 08/20/2017 9:44:29 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat Party supported KKK, lynchings and blocked school integration.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The Murdoch boys are p-whipped cucks.
Their Hillary-loving lefty wives are running the show.


59 posted on 08/20/2017 9:45:23 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PIF
I do. Speak for yourself, please.

I am talking about cable/satellite in the delivery sense. They are no longer needed to carry a channel.

Netflix is not a news source.

Who said they were? It's available in almost every household. How is that since they're not included in a cable or satellite bundle?

60 posted on 08/20/2017 9:51:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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